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Andrew Mitchell has been deeply involved with entrepreneurship education and business-university collaboration since 1999 and has been at the centre of or has personally raised over €10 million of industry, government and HEI enterprise funding.
Advising startups, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Sharing my projects, Supporting my investments, Trading services
Supporting and inspiring globally ambitious software companies in Scotland
Startup type: University Spin-out
Status: Active
Stage: Growth
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Andrew Mitchell Business Manager, Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change.
Andrew Mitchell joined the Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change (ECCC) in Spring 2011, an innovation centre bringing entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, policy makers and academics together to deliver the “low carbon economy”. Andrew is an award-winning programme manager with 18 years experience in the ICT sector and 11 years experience in business-university collaboration and commercialisation. His career has been within small business, FTSE100 corporations and world leading research-intensive universities; internationally across Scotland, England, the USA and Australia.
From 2007-2011 he was a key member of the commercialisation team at Informatics in Edinburgh; Europe’s largest and the UK’s top rated Computer Science research department. With a special focus on entrepreneurship education, Andrew has facilitated over €10M of public and private funding to support startups and spinouts. Establishing and building Informatics Ventures over these four years, he delivered 27,817 hours of executive education via 65 workshops and events to 980 entrepreneurs from 617 companies. This helped to build a Scottish Informatics ecosystem of 1,147 nascent-entrepreneurs, serial-entrepreneurs and investors, who collectively carried out 5,554 focussed “elevator pitches”.